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Originally Posted by Gaudreauvertime
I said he can play all 3 forward positions. You said he can't. I showed you where you were mistaken. You asked when was the last time he lined up at center, I showed you it was in the last 2 years. He played enough center to take like 70 faceoffs in his 1st season in Winnipeg. He took 205 faceoffs in his 3 seasons with Chicago. He's played much more center than you're implying, but it's not surprising given you're initial instinct was that he never played the position with those two clubs.
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You say that like it's a lot of faceoffs. It's not.
Frolik has taken 428 faceoffs in 576 career games. That's less than one a game. He's only had one season in his career where he averaged more than 1 faceoff per game.
When Frolik first went to Chicago, he took 107 faceoffs in 28 games. In the other 548 games he has played, he has taken 321. The playoffs are similar: 45 faceoffs in 7 games in the 2011 playoffs; 18 in the other 31 playoff games he has played.
If we use faceoff totals as our guide, out of 614 total regular season and playoff games played in the NHL, Frolik was used as a Centre for about 35 of them -- five years ago.
Last season, 130 players in the NHL took more faceoffs over the course of the season than Frolik has taken in his entire career. Monahan and Backlund both took over 1000 faceoffs last season. Stajan was third on the team and still averaged almost 10 per game. Bennett was given limited time at Centre and still took 347 faceoffs.
Linden Vey only played 41 games last season, and he took more faceoffs last season than Frolik has in his career.